Cliff Dexter
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| Cliff Dexter | |
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| Starring | Hans von Borsody Andrea Dahmen Sabine Bethmann |
| Country of origin | West Germany |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
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| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Production company | Hamburgische Film- und Fernsehproduktion |
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| Network | ZDF |
| Release | 19 October 1966 – 7 February 1968 |
Cliff Dexter is a detective series in the ZDF 1966 until 1968. It produced two seasons each with 13 episodes each 25 minutes, lead actor was Hans von Borsody. Other performers have included Hans Schellbach as Commissioner Meinert, Sabine Bethmann as Jacqueline and Andrea Dahmen as Carrol. In two episodes occurred Günter Strack.
Cliff Dexter is a former FBI agent who - working as a private investigator - in a German city. Parts of the series were filmed in Hamburg, including the startup sequence, runs in his Mercedes Benz 300 SE convertible to his office located at Ludwig-Erhard-Straße 22, 20459 Hamburg. (formerly Ost-West Straße)
The series was, although popular with audiences, not continued after 26 episodes, probably partly because the critics had little good to say about the 'pocket-format Bond'. Yet during the broadcast period 1966–1968, the series regularly reached 36-38 million viewers.
Main cast
[edit]- Hans von Borsody as Cliff Dexter (26 episodes)
- Andrea Dahmen as Carroll (13 episodes)
- Sabine Bethmann as Jacqueline (13 episodes)
- Eva Gross as Empfangssekretärin (13 episodes)
- Hans Waldherr as Bob (13 episodes)
- Hans Schellbach as Kommissar Meinert (12 episodes)
- Herbert F. Schubert as Paul (12 episodes)
- Hans Irle as Archibald Pillow (10 episodes)
- Achim Thorwald as Kriminalist Marquard (6 episodes)
See also
[edit]References
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- Martin Compart. Crime TV: Lexikon der Krimiserien. Bertz, 2000.
External links
[edit]- Cliff Dexter at IMDb
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